Quotes About Subjugation

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

Pretenden que aceptemos su dios clavado en una cruz, dios de la muerte, que nos sometamos a su rey, que no vive aquí y no conocemos, quieren ocupar nuestra tierra y que seamos sus esclavos. ¿Por qué?, pregunto yo a la gente. Por nada, hermanos. No aprecian la libertad. No entienden de orgullo, obedecen, ponen las rodillas en tierra, inclinan la cabeza. No saben de justicia ni de retribución.

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Conquer or be conquered.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

The best slave is someone who is overpaid and he knows it

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

For a young man who had chafed within the stern, moralistic, anhedonic world of his father, animation provided escape, and for someone who had always been subjugated by that father, it provided absolute control. In animation Walt Disney had a world of his own. In animation Walt Disney could be the power.

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

Because the hostility between the Wampanoag and the neighboring Narragansett had restricted contact between them, the disease had not spread to the latter. Massasoit's people were not only beset by loss, they were in danger of subjugation.